Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...abundant powers, recently augmented by a long-pending economic-control bill. But he has hesitated to offend any loud, well-organized pressure group such as the landowners (Farm Bloc) or the middlemen (Little Business). Should Chile turn out to be another feeding ground for Fascism, part of the blame must rest upon democrats who failed to keep Chile's democracy strong...
...laying the blame for this on the Good Neighbor policy, the British overlooked one fact. It is mainly through this same policy that Brazil is able to resume interest payments at all. Because of Lend-Lease, and the resulting purchase by the U.S. of vast stores of raw materials, Brazil's pocketbook is the fattest in years. As many U.S. moneymen pointed out, the plan is better than any which Britain has thus far secured. No matter what its drawbacks, the plan promises to put interest payments to U.S. and British bondholders, even if reduced, on a reasonably permanent...
...Congress last week set ahead for six months, until June 1944, the legal deadline for bringing to trial Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and Major General Walter C. Short. Thus the smoldering subject of the blame for Pearl Harbor was neatly maneuvered into the middle of next year's Presidential campaign...
Britain's mines, backbone of its industrial economy, are privately owned, but are operated under Government control. Sharply hit by prewar depressions, working conditions are generally poor. Safety measures are often neglected. Miners are bitter, blame the owners for everything. Since war began, step after step aimed at getting more coal has failed. The extent of the failure: despite all efforts the average weekly output during November of this year was a million tons less than a year...
...happy at the thought of ten million decisive, unpredictable votes swamping the ballot boxes in 1944. A coalition of GOPsters and conservative Democrats did the heavy work in killing the Lucas-Green bill. But the soldier who goes with out a vote cannot put the full blame on the old anti-New Deal coalition. With clear-eyed candor, New Mexico's suave Dennis Chavez surveyed his colleagues and remarked to the Senate as a whole: "We seem to be afraid...